QUOTE(SqueakBox @ Wed 19th September 2007, 1:06am)
QUOTE(tarantino @ Tue 18th September 2007, 11:52pm)
If you want to look back even further in time, visit nostalgia.wikipedia.org. Here's Jimbo's
user page circa 2001, a list of the
first 192 contributors, and what's probably the first instance on WP of a vandal
vandalizing a list of vandals, done by zenferret.
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'''[[zenferret]]''' (aka General Jack D. Ripper) - falsely accused of vandalising the US Constitution. But he exonerated himself when he revealed the communist conspiracy against our precious bodily fluids that this page represents.
Whaddaya know, even the earliest available list of wikipedians gives Sanger co-founder status.
That doesnt make him a co-foundetr though. If we believe Jimbo that Sanger was merely a paid employee who then became a renegade we should support Jimbo and give no truck to this wanne-be rebel, Squeak :ph34r: Box
I can never tell if you're being sarcastic :). In this instance I'll reply as if you aren't. The operative phrase you use is
"If we believe Jimbo". Jimbo may believe Jimbo, but his word should not be taken as gospel.
His recollection
here is demonstrably false.
((jwales)) His title was "editor in chief"
((jwales)) he made up the "co-founder" bit after I fired him
((ocee)) cannot organisations sue a former employer for publicly mis-stating his/her role in
the organisation
((jwales)) ocee, yes, someone else should do it, not me
((Dragonfly6-7)) the thing is, there're references
((Dragonfly6-7)) NY Times, etc
((jwales)) There are many more references referrring to me as founder
((Dragonfly6-7)) Wikipedia says "Created by: Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger"
((jwales)) there is no question that it cannot be stated as a simple fact
((jwales)) that's what NPOV means
((jwales)) whenever there is a legitimate controversy, wikipedia should not take sides
((jwales)) that should say "Created by: thousands of volunteers"In 2001, Jimbo did not object to this
description that he himself edited.
There is no editor-in-chief per se, and two people who founded and are paid, by Bomis, Inc., to work on and manage the encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, like to think of themselves as mere participants who are charged with seeing to it that the project does not stray from the path on which it is already travelling. However, since it is Larry's paid occupation to oversee Wikipedia (and Nupedia), he makes the final decision on issues where community consensus cannot be reached. Other Bomis employees who have done some work on the encyclopedia include TimShell, one of the co-founders of Bomis, as well as programmers Jason Richey and Toan Vo.Jimbo also didn't object to
press releases that as late as late as 2004 said,
The Wikipedia project was founded in January 2001 by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger. Bomis (bomis.com), an Internet web portal owned by Wales, supplied the financial backing and other support, while Sanger led the Wikipedia project during its first year, as a full-time paid editor. Since then it has operated mostly on consensus, using policies refined over time by its contributors.
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